From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 14 11:09:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4F2816A4BF for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 11:09:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from m23.nyc.untd.com (m23.nyc.untd.com [64.136.22.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A198A43FA3 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 11:09:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gs_stoller@juno.com) Received: from cookie.untd.com by cookie.untd.com for <"/s5f1SIGSI3+WdnoYQ8yRBfUtTTZKOzAaZ8ra/mdqM9pfMFvvBv/CQ==">; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 11:08:29 PDT Received: (from gs_stoller@juno.com) by m23.nyc.untd.com (jqueuemail) id H93BPKDA; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 11:08:29 PDT To: nkinkade@fastmail.fm Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:23:22 -0400 Message-ID: <20030914.140154.-351911.0.GS_Stoller@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 4.0.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-1,3-39 X-Juno-Att: 0 X-Juno-RefParts: 0 From: Gerald S Stoller cc: gs_stoller@hotmail.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG cc: gs_stoller@juno.com Subject: Re: color in Xwindows X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 18:09:12 -0000 On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 08:54:16 +0000 Nathan Kinkade writes: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 06:03:19PM -0400, Gerald S Stoller wrote: > > FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 > GMT 2001 > > jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 > > > > I am trying to put color in some of my messages (I am > using > > Xwindows ). One place where I found mention of color is in the > manual > > page of the ls command (search in there for the string "COLOR". > I > > picked a window and in it set TERM to xterm-color and exported > it, > > set CLICOLOR to a nonnull value and exported it, set LSCOLORS > to the > > default value mentioned there and exported it. Did an ls -l but > it > > showed up as usual. Then tried changing TERM to cons25 (also > > mentioned in the man page) and exported it. Still nothing. > > Can anyone direct me to documentation that will tell me > how to > > insert color in messages, both the fone and the backgroun, or > write to me > > how to do it? Thanks in advance. > > Try using `ls -G` for color output in ls. If that works, just put I tried it, still the same output, no color. > an alias in your shells config file. For bash it would look something > like: > alias ls='ls -G' > > don't know about other shells, though. > > Nathan > -- > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D8527E49